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Atowi project and Elnu Abenaki, with project partners and the Town of Rockingham, will be participating in the 2024 Annual Downtown and Historic Preservation Conference. We will be a part of a morning session presentation as listed in the day’s event schedule:
In May, a community group will begin unveiling its work on a $37,000 study of the Native rock carvings next to the Vilas Bridge on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River. The Kchi Pôntegok Project (kit-see pohn-tuh-guk), named after the Abenaki expression for "at the Great Falls," which refers to the location of the petroglyphs. The group is at the point of wrapping up the project and members are planning public presentations of their findings.
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Mawooshen is the name attributed at early European contact (late 1500s to early 1600s) to what is today's midcoast Maine - an area from the Saco River (Biddeford) east to the Union River (Ellsworth).